A true-crime podcaster gets pulled back into her hometown's darkest unsolved case in 'The Killer With No Name', a 2024 thriller directed by Jeff Hare.
What is The Killer With No Name about?
Years after leaving her small hometown behind, a podcast host returns for reasons that quickly become more complicated than a simple visit. A recent death in town reopens wounds from a case that was never fully solved, and old rumors start circulating again among neighbors who thought the story was buried for good. Professional curiosity turns personal fast: the deeper she digs into old testimonies and half-remembered details, the more she realizes someone does not want the truth surfacing. What begins as research for her show becomes a genuine cat-and-mouse pursuit, with the podcaster caught between chasing a story and becoming part of one. Small-town loyalties, guarded secrets, and a killer who has stayed hidden for years all collide as she pushes toward an answer that several people in town would clearly prefer stayed unspoken.
About the cast
Kabby Borders leads the film as the podcast host whose search for closure turns increasingly dangerous, playing the role with a mix of stubborn curiosity and mounting unease. John Zimmermann, Adam Harper, and Will Holland fill out the small-town ensemble of neighbors and suspects, while Brianna Butler and Brian Childers add texture to a cast built around long-buried secrets and shifting loyalties.
Context & significance
Director Jeff Hare works within the small-scale mystery-thriller tradition that favors close, character-driven tension over large-scale spectacle, using the confines of a small town to heighten suspicion between neighbors. The film's 2024 release taps into the broader popularity of true-crime podcasting as a framing device, using the format to justify a fresh outsider's perspective on a case the town would rather forget.
Watching The Killer With No Name on Ktime
'The Killer With No Name' is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow every twist of the investigation clearly. This page is free to read without an account, and streaming the film only requires logging into a free K-Time account, part of a Farsi-focused catalog built for the Iranian diaspora.